USA Poll 10/24

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2005

10/24/2005

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (53)	1,540	1
2	Texas (8)	1,493	2
3	Virginia Tech (3)	1,428	3
4	Georgia	1,357	4
5	Alabama	1,277	5
6	Miami	1,226	6
7	LSU	1,164	7
8	UCLA	1,136	9
9	Florida State	1,003	10
10	Notre Dame	934	12
11	Boston College	870	11
12	Penn State	835	14
13	Ohio State	803	13
14	Oregon	712	16
15	Wisconsin	677	17
16	Texas Tech	603	8
17	West Virginia	539	20
18	Florida	513	19
19	Auburn	427	15
20	TCU	383	21
21	California	276	23
22	Minnesota	189	25
23	Northwestern	179	NR
24	Fresno State	134	NR
25	Tennessee	133	18

Coaches' Poll
Started in 1950.

More Info

The Coaches' Poll began as a top 20 list in 1950 and was published by United Press International (UPI). In 1990 the poll began listing the top 25 teams.

This poll was published by the UPI until 1991 when USA Today and CNN took it over. ESPN replaced CNN in 1997 as the co-sponsor. After the controversial results in the BCS in 2004, ESPN left and the poll is currently run by USA Today only.

Since the inception of the BCS, the Coaches' Poll must vote the number one team in the BCS poll as number one also. This was supposed to eliminate the possibility of split national titles until the before mentioned 2004 controversy. The winner of the Coaches' Poll is awarded the Waterford Crystal National Championship Coaches' Trophy.